book recommendation?

rubyonrails-talk
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Are there any book recommendations for someone just getting started with Ruby? Any pitfalls to be avoided during installation?

OSX 10.4.11 phpMyAdmin-2.6.4 MySQL 5.0.45

thanks, david

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Agile web development with Rails, 2nd ed. :wink:

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Hi --

Are there any book recommendations for someone just getting started with Ruby? Any pitfalls to be avoided during installation?

OSX 10.4.11 phpMyAdmin-2.6.4 MySQL 5.0.45

There are lots of Ruby intro books. The classic is "Programming Ruby", by Dave Thomas et al. There's also "The Ruby Programming Language", by David Flanagan. If you want to learn Ruby in a Rails-oriented way (which I suspect you do, since you posted to this list :slight_smile: there's "Ruby for Rails", by me.

I should add that I don't deliberately restrict my recommendations to people named David. It just seems to work out that way.

David

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GOT TO http://teapoci.blogspot.com and choose eBook, there's some valuable ebooks for people like you or learning to be pro.

Enjoy, Reinhart

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Stop pimping links for stolen ebooks.

Fred

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Fred, what's the matter with you? about hundreds maybe thousands pirate websites which are providing pirate or 'stolen' eBooks, (have you complained about it to them? why you always yelling to me?). KNOWLEDGE is rights for everybody. Many poor people dont have money to buy eBook, what's wrong if we help them? I believe you were learning ruby from pirate ebook too. :slight_smile:

Peace and Cheer :slight_smile: Reinhart

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If you want to share “stolen” ebooks, do, I’m not going to say anything agains it, but please keep this kind of thing outside this list!

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Visit Indonesia 2008 wrote:

Fred, what's the matter with you?

Pot, kettle, black.

there's some valuable ebooks for people like you

"Valuable" being the keyword here. Yes they are, and by distributing them without the authors consent you're hurting the Ruby/Rails ecosystem. There is loads and loads of free knowledge out there, so drop the pretentious Robin Hood attire.

If you want to help the poor, create your own book and put it under GNU FDL, CC, PD or whatever you desire.

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Fred, what's the matter with you? about hundreds maybe thousands pirate websites which are providing pirate or 'stolen' eBooks, (have you complained about it to them? why you always yelling to me?).

Because you're the one posting them here. This isn't a forum for spreading that sort of information.

KNOWLEDGE is rights for everybody. Many poor people dont have money to buy eBook, what's wrong if we help them?

What about helping the people who do a lot of hard work writing the books?

I believe you were learning ruby from pirate ebook too. :slight_smile:

Actually, I bought a dead tree copy of the pickaxe

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so you're answer to Fred is "lots of other people are fucking thiefs, stop bugging me". Nice morals asshole.

This community is built by some great people that give in different ways - some commercially, some for free, and some combos of both (great folk like David Black). Those that take from the good of others without paying in some way (with $$, without giving back by helping others) are vampires.

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NO COMMENT :slight_smile: This forum is not place for fighting.

Peace,

Reinhart

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Thanks for the recommendations . . . sorry about the public bickering this caused

da

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da wrote:

Thanks for the recommendations . . . sorry about the public bickering this caused

That's hardly your fault :slight_smile: Just one more I'd like to throw in: I found Peepcodes Rails 2 PDF to be invaluable in getting up to speed with the changes that came with Rails 2.

Cheers, Jan